Aetheryte Ticket - Useless

[acheronnos]

Paid for 1 year and get 50 tickets, its useless SE !!! why dont they doing sometime for cool for people that paid ur game for 1 year, showing that we love ur game

[Lanceton]

let's just call for SE to switch this to a Fantasia xD

[Ricky]

I think it's a fine reward but perhaps it should have been swapped with another one since 360 days is quite a milestone, for example the Fantasia would have been a better choice for a 360 day and the tickets for 30 day, but I understand they probably wanted new players to have the Fantasia option sooner so I can respect that. But yes, as a perk it's nice, as a 360 day perk a little underwhelming

[SIXTYONESIX]

I get a laugh out of the whole "slap in the face" mentality. You all subbed and continue to sub to the game before AND after you knew about all these meaningless rewards, and SE is under no obligation to give you anything "special" just for subscribing. The game is what you get for your money, and if you don't feel like you are getting your money's worth, no one is making you stay.

While it might indeed be a little lackluster of a reward compared to some of the others they have doled out, I would hardly call any of these items a slap in the face. It's just something extra that they didn't even have to give the ungrateful masses in the first place.

Should feel lucky they even keep the game running. If it was my game and it had this whiny/entitled/ungrateful community, I would have shut the servers down a long time ago.

[Emtron]

whiny/entitled/ungrateful community.

That pretty much sums up any large scale online gaming community.

[LalaRu]

I'll take a longer sub in advance because some of the rewards are nice to me. Does not means all rewards must be nice to me.
If you see vet rewards as incentive to subs, they have got me

[Peptaru]

The problem here is avarice; nothing more, nothing less. The people who say shut up and eat the free cake are judging the greedy folks. I am of the shut up and eat the free cake crowd, too.

[lackofwords]

What I'm reading here are a lot of blanket statements, and some extreme ends on both sides.

It's one thing to acknowledge how someone's opposing opinion that conflict with your own, but it's another to accuse people of being something or another.

I'll just sum up the thoughts for both sides.

A: People subscribe to the game for the game itself, and not the milestone rewards.
B: Both milestone rewards should be appropriately reflect the commemoration of the milestone itself.

A: People who receive the gift should be grateful that there was a gift at all.
B: Gifts with practical use serves a better purpose on earlier commemorations. Such as how fantasia was designed in mind for people coming in from FFXIV 1.0.

A: Saving gil is always useful. You can sell the tickets for gil (assumed)
B: All previous rewards are account bound and untradeable. Tickets most likely will be untradeable as well (assumed)

And the extremes
A: No one gets anything, cry-babies should quit the game.
B: Want more than 50 tickets, want something permanently practical.

And I'll just quote people who seem right of mind speaking for both opinions;

They stated vet rewards will be vanity at best. You're paying to play an MMO - you have access to much more than an once a month perk. Even if the game is low on the content side, you can get much more by actually playing than hoping for something for "free"..you're not getting what you paid for?

This is exactly why you shouldn't give out items that give players some sort of advantage. Do too much, you've warped the balance for new players. Do too little, and the committed players feel insulted.

[Myrhn]

This is only the first year reward and some people asking too much. What is going to be for the 2, 3 or 4 year reward? Oh X item such i have sub for X year is time you SE give me a free max level new class because i'm loyal. LOL at people whining for a free stuff they give.

[RuleSigea]

This is only the first year reward and some people asking too much. What is going to be for the 2, 3 or 4 year reward? Oh X item such i have sub for X year is time you SE give me a free max level new class because i'm loyal. LOL at people whining for a free stuff they give.

No one is complaining about free things. We are simply curious as to why there is a sudden change in the quality of the reward. My points are.

1. One year of service and subscription is a milestone to many for the relaunch.
2. All previous rewards have been tangible (mounts, minions, vanity).

The thing that makes this reward even worse for many is that the security token provides one free teleport location that can be reassigned. If that was the one year reward, people would be jumping for joy and praising Yoshi P. Alas, the reward we are getting will disappear in a matter of time or never see the light of day at all.

If i gave you a stuffed animal every week for three months ,and then all of a sudden decided to gave you a dead goldfish in a bowl, you might question what my motive was. You'll gladly accept the goldfish and place it on a shelf so i don't feel bad, but then as soon as I leave you flush it down the toilet while the stuffed animals sit proudly on your bed.